ABSTRACT
Before Lloyd George’s War Cabinet was established in 1917, censorship was an area where lack of a central co-ordinating body sparked many ad hoc organisations, hastily established in reaction to events and to lacunae in responsibility. Consequent overlaps and confusion led to further organisational adaptations and less than ideal inter-departmental relationships. 20 Even press censorship, despite having been much discussed pre-1914, and already with a basis of organisation in the AWOPC, suffered many problems throughout the War, albeit to a declining degree.
